Blog - Rolf Potts

White Zombie guitarist J. Yuenger on music, expat life, and long-term travel 25.09.2018 ↓

Music, expat life, and long-term travel

Traveling Russia onboard the Trans-Siberian express: A 2018 case study 19.09.2018 ↓

How to take a train across Russia

The great railway bizarre: A Trans-Siberian story (plus audio endnotes) 18.09.2018 ↓

The great railway bizarre

Writer-producer LaToya Morgan on TV storytelling and creative self-discipline 11.09.2018 ↓

TV storytelling and creative self-discipline

Punk icon Ian MacKaye on why we should question the official history of rock music 04.09.2018 ↓

An alternative history of popular music

How to survive a natural disaster (and recover when it’s over) 21.08.2018 ↓

How to survive a natural disaster

Wesley Morris on podcast-fame, sports, and performing blackness in America 14.08.2018 ↓

Podcast fame, sports, and performing blackness

Satanic backward masking changed 1980s rock (but not in the way you think) 07.08.2018 ↓

1980s rock and Satanic Panic

Celebrating the best places to live (and the quest for home) in America 17.07.2018 ↓

Most livable small cities

On American Highways II: A brief history of the Negro Motorist Green Book 11.07.2018 ↓

A history of the Negro Motorist Green Book

On American Highways I: A brief history of family road-trips in the USA 10.07.2018 ↓

A history of the American family road-trip

How to break up with your smartphone (and rediscover your real-world life) 03.07.2018 ↓

How to break up with your smartphone

Classic rock is not dead. Classic rock is undead. Long live classic rock. 26.06.2018 ↓

Classic rock is nearly (but not really) dead

Remembering Bourdain, and what we talk about when we talk about travel writing 19.06.2018 ↓

Why travel writing matters

Why 1980s coming-of-age movies matter 12.06.2018 ↓

Why 1980s teen movies matter

How to talk to someone who is grieving the loss of a loved one 05.06.2018 ↓

How to talk to someone who is mourning

Paul Theroux on the art of listening, and the necessary obstacles of deep travel 29.05.2018 ↓

Deep travel, packing light, and the art of listening.

The way we grow food has been broken for 10,000 years (but we can fix it) 22.05.2018 ↓

The way we grow food has been broken for 10,000 years (but we can fix it)

Kevin Kelly on the lost world of 1970s Asia (and why you should travel now) 15.05.2018 ↓

The lost world of 1970s Asia (and why you should travel now)

Kink Doctor Dulcinea Pitagora on sex therapy, BDSM, and dominatrix work 08.05.2018 ↓

Dominatrix work, sex therapy, BDSM, and alternative sexualities

Sarah von Bargen is here to help you correct your bad self-help habits 01.05.2018 ↓

Six strategies for helping you correct your self-help bad habits

The way we teach and learn has been broken for 300 years (but we can fix it) 24.04.2018 ↓

The way we teach and learn has been broken for 300 years

How we die in America (and why it’s important to talk about it) 17.04.2018 ↓

Writer Ann Neumann on late-life quality-of-life

Deviate Live in New York City: Travel Stories and Souvenirs 10.04.2018 ↓

Travel stories about the quest for souvenirs

How romance novels reveal the secret history of life in America 03.04.2018 ↓

Magic hoo-hoos man-titty, and what romance reveals about life in America